Women's volleyball vs. Loras College
The Augustana women's volleyball team will play the Loras College Duhawks.
Home schedule
Oct. 1: 3 p.m. vs. Grinnell
Oct. 22: 2 p.m. vs. North Park
Oct. 26: 7 p.m. vs. Carroll
Business club meeting
The Business Club hosts their first meeting of the year. The executive board will be introduced along with an outline for the year, including a trip to Chicago.
Heywire open practice
Augustana's improv group, Heywire, hosts an open practice for students can try out improv. This is a low stress and relaxed event so students can come by even if they are on slightly interested.
Augustana launches state's first ‘Second Chance Pell Experimental Site’
Students enrolled in the Augustana Prison Education Program are the first in Illinois to draw upon the new Second Chance Pell awards from the U.S. Department of Education.
U.S. News again ranks Augustana among top liberal arts colleges
Augustana College continued its long-standing tradition of ranking in the top 100 for national liberal arts colleges and made big gains in the category of social mobility in the U.S. News & World Report’s 2023 rankings.
Blood drive
The Greek Council is hosting a blood drive of the year from 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
Swedish folk duo Symbio
Swedish folk duo Symbio, whose performance is described as musical storytelling, will perform.
The duo was chosen as official showcase artist at the Folk Alliance International USA 2020, the world ́s largest gathering of folk and roots music industry.
Sponsored by the Office of Student Life, Multicultural Programming Board, Student Life Programming Board, and departments of Scandinavian and music.
Symposium Day: Civil Discourse
Each fall semester, Augustana devotes a day to an alternative, multidisciplinary approach to learning. These Symposium Days include invited speakers, faculty, students and alumni.
This year's fall Symposium Day theme is Civil Discourse.
About the theme
• How do people constructively engage with others who have differing viewpoints on important topics?
• How do they engage in respectful discussions?
• With so much intense dispute about sources of information, how do they find common ground and what are the relevant standards of expertise?
• How do they avoid echo chambers to find broader perspectives?
• How do they maintain an open mind?
Well-Being Lab: Question, persuade, refer for suicide prevention
The Learning Commons presents a series of well-being labs to provide students with knowledge and skills from a variety of different disciplines intended to improve their overall sense of well-being.
Just like CPR, QPR ( Question, persuade, refer for suicide prevention) is an immediate response to someone in crisis and can save lives. QPR is the most widely taught Gatekeeper training in the world.
In honor of Suicide Awareness Month, the Office of Student Well-Being, the Office of Student Inclusion and Diversity, and the Office of Student life host this workshop to teach students what they can do to help.
See complete well-being lab schedule
Dr. Shelley Haley: 'What's a Black Feminist like me doing in a field like this?!'
Dr. Shelley Haley will present the Antiquity in the New Millennium lecture: "What's a Black feminist like me doing in a field like this?!"
She is a professor of Africana studies and Classics at Hamilton College, the Edward North Chair of Greek and Greek Literature, and president of the Society for Classical Studies. She applies Black feminist and critical race approaches to the study and teaching of Classics.
In this lecture, she will be reflecting on her experiences as a Black feminist in a largely white, male field.